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If you are an entrepreneur in Singapore, you will agree that the internet has revolutionized business over the last 15 years. If you have not started leveraging online business to get a competitive edge then your business is staring at gradual death.

This is the main reason most businesses have contracted professional web designers to capitalize on the potential market. Like most business owners, you must be wondering how long building a website will take, and if so, you have come to the right place.

Impressive Singapore Internet Statistics

Statistics tell it all and for this reason you must get your business online by hiring an expert for an efficient business website. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reports 9.1 million Singapore residents are subscribed to broadband internet. This gives a penetration rate of 73%.

But that’s not all; home access to the internet according to Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) stands at 87%, again highlighting the potential for businesses that have an online presence. With this in mind, the next logical course of action is definitely contacting an established web designing firm in the country.

Determining Website Creation Time

Well, these numbers are mouth-watering and they make owning a website an irresistible option. Before you start haranguing your web designer about instant web solutions, you need to appreciate what goes into the process of creating an effective website.

More importantly, you need to appreciate what will affect the length of time it will take to give you a magnificent website. Take a look at some pertinent issues around web development that determine how long it will take:

1.    Your Input

Most clients take website development as an alien product that will be developed wholly by a web designer and only delivered before it goes live. Well, you will be surprised to know that the first thing that affects website development is you; your input, more so preparation, will affect the working of a designer from the first step.

If you provide fresh content, ideas, branding theme, business objective and all other necessary details, your website will be ready for launch within 4-8 weeks, which is the timeline most developers in Singapore use. More importantly, your input during development including quick approval, timely changes and active involvement will reduce the time taken to build your page.

2.    Choice of Web Designer

When looking for a web designer, make sure you go for experience, intensively trained experts, good reputation, excellent customer support and history of reliability and quality service guarantees. By reading reviews and testimonials, you will be able to avoid quacks who can take four months on your web page as they juggle your project among multiple others.

According to Singapore Online Business Association (SOBA), 78% of small businesses fail because they chose the wrong web designer. Not only does this choice affect launch times, but also quality of the end product you get. By hiring the right web designer, you will get your website in 12-16 weeks, again based on complexity of coding needed.

3.    Timeline Structuring

Every project follows a systematic process and this in web design is a timeline with stages in web development. This will give you an approximate time in which your web page will be ready for launch. Different web designers in Singapore will vary time spent on each phase, but mostly these stages are involved:

• Proposal and initial contact: This is an introductory phase from 1 day to 3 days.
• Project kickoff: This is an intensive period of consultations, trial and error, and will take 1-2 weeks.
• Web architecture: Actual work starts and will take 2-4 weeks.
• Design and development: Intricate process taking 4-5 weeks.
• Pre-launch, launch and evaluation: A lot of testing is done and takes 3-4 weeks.

The type and size of the website including images and multimedia also factors greatly in determining time taken in creation of your business website.

It is crucial to note that 50-70% of this time is used in back and forth communication again highlighting how crucial you are in this process.